Ahead of the expected announcement that Saudi Arabia will be appointed chair of the UN women’s rights forum at the annual meeting of the UN Commission of the Status of Women today, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Advocacy, Sherine Tadros, said: “The Commission on the Status of Women has a clear mandate to promote women’s […]

No, this isn’t the onion.

Yes, Saudi Arabia still cuts off the clits of pre-teen girls as ritual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation

The social contract is breaking. Governments do not exist to serve us. They exist to serve whoever pays them the most (which is none of you.)

  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Ok but the UN isn’t a legislative body, it’s a forum. Everybody gets their turn, including SA. If you try to convince someone they are wrong by sitting them down and “telling them you are right”, you aren’t going to get anywhere.

    Appointing them the chair of the forum puts pressure on them, and forces them to discuss their terrible ways.

    The people who wrote this article knew this, it’s just clickbait because people see SA and women’s rights in the same sentence.